[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 28.0 still broken for me - Re: Firefox can't save files

Tue Mar 25 07:41:02 UTC 2014

On 03/25/14 02:49 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> This has kind of quieted down, and I am wondering if others are still seeing this issue, or if it has resolved itself.
>
> I just upgraded from 27 to 28.0, and made an attempt to download a new copy of thunderbird.  For me, nothing has changed, from the
> download window, it is indicated that the download has failed.  This is the actual state things are left in:
>
> 429 % ls -l thunderbird-24.4.0*
> -rw-r--r--   1 jkemp    users          0 Mar 24 20:40 thunderbird-24.4.0.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 jkemp    users    41827856 Mar 24 20:40 thunderbird-24.4.0.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2.part
> 430 %
>
> Note, in this download, I downloaded to my home directory, vs /tmp .
>
> Also, FWIW, I also did a reboot on my box, it had been up for several months, not that that really mattered.
>
> ..................................
> 431 % cat /etc/release
>               OpenIndiana Development oi_151.1.7 X86 (powered by illumos)
>          Copyright 2011 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
>                          Use is subject to license terms.
>                             Assembled 03 October 2012
> 432 %
> ..................................
>
> Helpful comments appreciated,
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
>
>
> On 03/18/14 03:32 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>>
>>
>>   Hello,
>>
>>   I am using firefox 27.0.1 and I have noticed that whenever I save a file,
>> firefox creates an empty file. The "real" file is stored in /tmp. I guess this
>> is a bug. BTW, I have noticed this problem on openindiana/illumos-ad17c01 and
>> Solaris 11.
>>
>> Regards,
>> A.S.
>>
>>
>> ----------------------
>> Apostolos Syropoulos
>> Xanthi, Greece
>>

Hi,

I have also gave up on my /hister dekstop (reverted back to 24esr version which works, for how long - it is question).

Now I have tried FF opensolaris package from within zone (which runs on my /hipster installation. It complains about missing dbus - 
but still works). All this from OI Zone:

$ head -1 /etc/release
              OpenIndiana Development oi_151.1.9 X86 (powered by illumos)
$ pkginfo -l SFWfirefox
    PKGINST:  SFWfirefox
       NAME:  Mozilla Firefox Web browser
   CATEGORY:  GNOME2,application,JDSosol
       ARCH:  i386
    VERSION:  28.0,REV=110.0.4.2014.03.17.10.02
    BASEDIR:  /
     VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
       DESC:  Mozilla Firefox Web browser
     PSTAMP:  jdsbld1420140317114238
   INSTDATE:  Mar 25 2014 08:20
...

Started 1st time and was able to download file:
$ ls -al Downloads/*
-rw-r--r--   1 zeka     other    43268404 Mar 25 08:26 Downloads/firefox-28.0.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar.bz2

Started 2nd time, and tried another one 
(https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/27.0.1/contrib/solaris_tarball/firefox-27.0.1.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar.bz2):
$ ls -al Downloads/*
-rw-r--r--   1 zeka     other    42209846 Mar 25 08:34 Downloads/firefox-27.0.1.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 zeka     other    43268404 Mar 25 08:26 Downloads/firefox-28.0.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar.bz2

And it worked. So, not Mozilla, but '/hipster' made some changes which in combination with latest FF releases doesn't work. I cannot 
reproduce 'unable to save' problem in OI zone, which runs '/dev':
$ pkg publisher -a
PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
openindiana.org                       origin   online   http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/
sfe                                   origin   online   http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe/
sfe-encumbered                        origin   online   http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumbered/

Earlier (2 weeks ago) I have run both (24esr and 28) FF versions with truss, and couldn't find too much difference. It is probably 
some library or RBAC difference. No idea.

Regards.

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